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Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.\nJob Description:\nAs a Tech Lead Software Engineer, you’ll help shape the mission-critical data and optimization engines that keep Southwest running safe, reliable, and efficient. You’ll guide the a Pod that sources and curates airline data across multiple domains, ensuring it’s accurate, scalable, and ready for software which supports network planning and rapid recovery decisions when operations are disrupted. You’ll lead the technical direction, mentor Developers, and provide hands-on support to the Team building complex, high-performance C++ models, translating business needs into robust designs, test automation, and dependable deployments. You’ll partner closely with Business Leaders, Solution Architects, shared services Teams, and Operations stakeholders to align capacity, architecture, and non-functional requirements like performance and reliability. Your work will strengthen decision-making and recovery speed, reduce risk, and unlock measurable value for Southwest’s operation and Customers-powering more dependable schedules, better use of our assets, and long-term success for our Employees and the business.\nAdditional Details\nThis role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel for trainings, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of those required visits, the majority of your working time may be spent in a remote location, away from our Corporate Campus. Please note, while this is a remote position, there is limited group of states or localities ineligible for Employees to regularly perform their work off-site. Those ineligible locations are: Alaska, Delaware, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Puerto Rico.\n\nU.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.\n\nWe’re committed to fair hiring practices and to making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics.\nResponsibilities\nProvide accurate development estimates in support of feasibility assessments and planned development activities\nCreate, maintain, review and approve application designs in collaboration with Solution Architects and shared services Teams, ensuring alignment to the appropriate solution architectures and taking tradeoffs into account\nDevelop, maintain, and review software with a focus on 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project related, while maintaining a successful level of completion in their own work\nAbility to work in a fast-paced, Team-based, Customer service-oriented environment\nEducation\nRequired: High School Diploma or GED\nRequired: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information systems or similar fields of study or equivalent advanced level experience\nExperience\nRequired: Expert level experience, expansive and far reaching knowledge in software engineering\nPreferred: Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or GitLab\nPreferred: Experience with branching and release strategies to support efficient software delivery\nPreferred: Experience executing Blue/Green and Canary deployment strategies for application releases\nPreferred: Experience utilizing feature flags to enable controlled feature rollouts\nPreferred: Experience managing multiple environments to maintain development, QA, and production parity\nPreferred: Experience 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For eligible Leadership and individual contributor roles, additional bonus opportunities are available and awarded at the discretion of the Company.\n\nBenefits you’ll love\nFly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on all Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too)\n\nSouthwest will help fund your Retirement Savings Plan, which includes a dollar-for-dollar 401(k) Company match contribution of up to 9.3% of your eligible earnings**\n\nPotential for annual profit-sharing contribution in the Southwest Retirement Savings Plan-when Southwest profits, you profit***\n\nCompetitive health insurance for you and your eligible dependents\n\nSouthwest offers health plan coverage options that start from the very first day of employment. You'll have 30 days to select and enroll in your health plan, and coverage will be retroactively available to your first day of employment.\n\nExplore more benefits you’ll love: https://careers.southwestair.com/benefits\n\n*Pay amount doesn’t guarantee employment for any particular period.\n**401(k) Company match contributions are subject to the plan’s vesting schedule. 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